Genesis Carrero Soto Caracas, Oct. 5 (EFE).- Precarity and poverty due to unsustainable salaries are squeezing Venezuelan teachers, forcing them to choose between their vocation and a decent living. According to people in the sector, the crisis is disastrous for public schools but also affects private education and influences young generations who choose not to …
By Rayner Peña and Genesis Carrero Soto Caracas, Aug 2 (EFE).- Venezuela, a nation until recently was suffering under a de facto ban international tourism ban as a result its domestic socio-political and economic crisis, lack of security and hyperinflation, is once again emerging as a viable and attractive destination for foreign adventurers and globetrotters …
By Genesis Carrero Soto Caracas, Jul 28 (EFE) – With pension income of no more than $5 a month and other retirement payouts also woefully insufficient, older adults in Venezuela have been forced to return to the workforce out of pure necessity. If not, they would have no means of surviving in a country where …
By Genesis Carrero Soto Caracas, May 18 (EFE).- Kinetic art, inspired by one of its main exponents, Carlos Cruz-Diez, has brought together nine artists with Down Syndrome or autism to display their talents within Venezuela’s National Museum System, a circuit that, for the first time, is making visible the talent of painters with cognitive limitations …
By Genesis Carrero Soto Caracas, Apr 13 (EFE).- Venezuela boasts the largest buffalo herd in Latin America and now is taking on the challenge of exporting the meat of that large mammal, which accounts for 20 percent of all bovine animals raised nationwide. To achieve that aim, however, experts and breeders agree that key challenges …